CHEMINS
D’HISTOIRE
Battlefield Guided Tours
Olivier Dirson20 Rue Gabriel Fauré
02100 Saint-Quentin (Aisne) France
Telephone :
+33 (0)3 23 67 77 64
06 31 31 85 02
Fax :
09 55 02 51 31
Email :
contact@cheminsdhistoire.com
Chemins d'Histoire is a company complying all the legal requirements in force
• Map (road directions)
to reach us :
• from Paris
• from Lille
• from London
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TESTIMONIALS
"I contacted Olivier because I wanted to do a tour of the Somme Battlefields to see where the Australians fought during the Great War.
In particular I wanted to visit Le Hamel to see the place where my Great Uncle Henry Dalziel VC fought.
Olivier not only took me to all of the major Australian Battlefields but he also took me to the trenches outside of Le Hamel where my Great Uncle performed the actions which led to him to being awarded the Victoria Cross.
I found Olivier to be extremely knowledgable and he tailored the tour to be exactly what I wanted.
I will never forget my tour and I would highly recommend him as a tour guide to anyone who wants to undertake a Somme Battlefield tour."
Kent Dalziel, Australia, May 2010
"Our wonderful guide, Olivier, was recommanded to us by our daughter who took a tour of the battlefields with him last year. She maintained it was a life changing experience, something she would never forget, and having recently taken a tour with Olivier ourselves, I would thoroughly agree. He is a charming, very knowledgeable guide, who goes out of his way to personalise your tour and make it unforgetable. He took us to the well known sites but also to those not so well known but of enormous interest, explaining the strategies employed by both sides with understanding and maps and photographs to expand the whole experience. In our case he researched my relative's military history and took us to the exact field where he fought and was wounded. He also travelled to Ypres to pick us up and planned his tour to fit with our travel arrangements. I could no more highly recommend him."
Rosemary Pollock, Australia, April 2010
Dear Olivier, just a note to thank you once again for an excellent tour on 1st July. We all both enjoyed and learnt a great deal during our day with you and appreciate your additional efforts on our behalf. Personnally, I found it very interesting to hear your own French perspective on events. Best wishes.
Simon Broadley, United Kingdom, July 2010
Olivier, a quicke note from Kerrie and myself to thank you so much for a job so very well done today. I know Kerrie was very excited with the research you did on her great grandfather and in particular her great uncle. Visiting the sites and sensing the presence of the spirits of so many young men taken from this earth so far from their homes and family was memorable. Do enjoy good things. Kindest regards.
Roger and Kerrie Maddern, Australia, June 2010
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
These cities are acccessible using the following means of transportation :
Paris - St-Quentin : by train
Lille - St-Quentin : by train
London - St-Quentin : by train (Eurostar to Lille, then a regional train to Saint-Quentin)
Albert : by plane (Leeds to Albert Picardie Airport).
Beauvais : by plane (several routes linking Ireland, Britain and the Beauvais regional airport)
We are Somme Battlefields' Partner, a label created by the
Comité Départemental du Tourisme de la Somme,
Chamber of
Commerce of Péronne, the Somme 1916 Museum and the Historial
de
la Grande Guerre of Péronne. The purpose of the label is to
provide a reference guaranteeing a quality welcome throughout the
territory.